Hysteria Beyond Freud by Sander L. Gilman, at al.

Publisher: University of California Press1993ISBN/ASIN: 0520080645ISBN-13: 9780520080645Number of pages: 478

Description:An absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of the new social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century.

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